Mental Growth and ControlMacmillan, 1902 - 296 Seiten |
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Seite 68 - You are constantly going from place to place," she said.— "Yes," he answered, "I am like the Huma," —and finished the sentence as before. What horrors, when it flashed over him that he had made this fine speech, word for word, twice over! Yet it was not true, as the lady might perhaps have fairly inferred, that he had embellished his conversation with the Huma daily during that whole interval of years. On the contrary, he had never once thought of the odious fowl until the recurrence of precisely...
Seite 67 - Thus a certain lecturer, after performing in an inland city where dwells a litteratrice of note, was invited to meet her and others over the social teacup. She pleasantly referred to his many wanderings in his new occupation. " Yes," he replied, " I am like the huma, the bird that never lights, being always in the cars, as he is always on the wing.
Seite 87 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Seite 166 - ... way ? — Habit is our primal, fundamental law ; Habit and Imitation, there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all Working and all Apprenticeship, of all Practice and all Learning, in this world.
Seite 198 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and...
Seite 59 - and much reading is good. But the power of diversifying \ the matter infinitely in your own mind, and of applying it to every occasion that arises, is far better ; so don't suppress the vivida vis.
Seite 159 - If you want to abolish a habit, and its accumulated circumstances as well, you must grapple with the matter as earnestly as you would with a physical enemy. You must go into the encounter with all tenacity of determination, with all fierceness of resolve — yea, even with a passion for success that may be called vindictive. No human enemy can be as insidious, so persevering, as unrelenting as an unfavorable habit.
Seite 139 - Habit is the deepest law of human nature. It is our supreme strength; if also, in certain circumstances, our miserablest weakness.